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SRVM-420 International Service Concepts
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
National and cultural constraints and expectations that impact planning, execution, and evaluation of service quality. Cultural, business, managerial and behavioral foundations supporting success in an international service context.
Prerequisite: take SRVM-111
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SRVM-449 Cooperative Education Experience
(1-6 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industry experience. Generally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous one.
Department Consent
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SRVM-498 Service Management Field Experience-HT
(1-2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Off-campus work and study in an approved position to better understand the challenges and potentials of various careers in the hospitality area.
Department Consent
Must be Senior level or higher
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SRVM-499 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SOCWK-205 Introduction To Social Work and Social Welfare Policy
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
An introduction to the history, values and ethics, theoretical frameworks, various practice areas, and philosophy of social work. Educating on social work’s role with cultural competency, social justice, social welfare and social policy will be discussed.
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SOCWK-397 Native American Service-Learning Partnership Course
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Service-learning and undergraduate research course to apply cultural competence, child development practices, applied theories, historical milestones, research techniques, and engagement methods to a service experience. Mutually-beneficial, educationally-based mentorship intervention with at-risk youth at a tribal school.
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SOCWK-420 Human Behavior in the Social Environment
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Biological, ecological, sociological, psychological, cultural,and spiritual development throughout the life cycle. Human development with the social environment emphasis from micro (individuals), mezzo (groups and families), and macro (community and organizations) perspectives and various theoretical frameworks. Apply core social work competencies.
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SOCWK-430 Social Work Practice Methods:Individuals
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Knowledge and skills of the intervention level of individuals (micro) social work practice: client interviewing, evidence-based assessments and interpersonal skills. Linkage to families, groups and communities/organizations. Apply social work competencies.
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SOCWK-440 Social Work Practice Methods:Groups and Families
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Knowledge and skills of the intervention level of groups/families (mezzo) social work practice: group dynamics and processes, group development and family dynamics with intervention strategies. Linkage to individuals and communities/organizations. Apply core social work competencies.
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SOCWK-450 Social Work Practice Methods: Communities & Organizations
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Knowledge and skills of the intervention level of communities and organizations (macro) social work practice: advocacy, community needs assessments, coalitions, board of directors, leadership, fundraising and policy. Linkage to individuals and groups with families. Apply core social work competencies.
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SOCWK-497 Leadership, Service, and Research with Native American Youth
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
This course will advance students’ leadership abilities, research skills, and civic engagement awareness. Students of this course will help mentor students enrolled in SOCWK 397: Native American Service-Learning Partnership Course which implements a person-centered, research-driven, theory-grounded, culturally-sensitive, educationally-based mentorship intervention with at-risk Native American youth at their tribal school.
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SOCWK-499 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SOC-110 Introductory Sociology
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Global Perspective, Social and Behavioral Sciences - Sociology
Repeatable for Credit: No
Introduction to sociological theories and methods in the study of social groups, interaction, inequality, and institutions. The place of the U.S. in a global context; comparisons of contemporary U.S. society with other societal and historical contexts. Processes of social location and inequalities, especially those pertaining to race/ethnicity.
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SOC-199 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SOC-225 Social Problems
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Social and Behavioral Sciences - Sociology
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological analysis of current social problems in the U.S. and the world.
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SOC-230 Sexualities in Historical and Social Perspective
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Cross-disciplinary Issues
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociology and history of sexual identities and categories and their uses to justify public policy; the normative and institutional context of how power is exercised in relation to sexuality, especially the stratification of society based on sexuality. Contemporary controversies such as gay marriage and other civil rights issues.
Must be Sophomore level or higher
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SOC-230 Sexualities in Historical and Social Perspective
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Cross-disciplinary Issues
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociology and history of sexual identities and categories and their uses to justify public policy; the normative and institutional context of how power is exercised in relation to sexuality, especially the stratification of society based on sexuality. Contemporary controversies such as gay marriage and other civil rights issues.
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SOC-249 Cooperative Education Experience
(1-8 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
Department Consent
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SOC-275 Sociology of Gender Roles
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Cross-disciplinary Issues
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological analysis of social roles played by the sexes.
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SOC-290 Global Political Ecology
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective, Cross-disciplinary Issues, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Social, political, and economic origins of contemporary environmental problems from sociological, anthropological and geographic perspectives; social construction of nature and knowledge; environmentalism, environmental racism and environmental justice in cross-cultural perspective; ethical implications of contemporary environmental problems regarding perspectives and distributions of justice.
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SOC-291 Sociology of Health and Illness
(3 cr.)
Racial and Ethnic Studies Category A, Global Perspective, Cross-disciplinary Issues, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological approaches to health and illness, both domestically and globally, with special emphasis on race and health. Topics include the social distribution of illness; health disparities across race/class/gender; global comparisons in the health of populations; the social construction of illness; the history and structure of health care systems and institutions; and various historical and contemporary health care debates. Health and illness will be considered throughout in terms of social justice and responsibility.
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SOC-293 Environmental Justice
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category A, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Environmental racism; socio-economic inequality and exposure to environmental hazards; race, class, and environmental suffering; grassroots activism and opposition to environmental inequality and racism, particularly among U.S. minority groups; incorporation of environmental justice principles into public policy and corporate decision-making.
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SOC-299 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SOC-315 Criminology
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological analysis of structure and function of criminal law, variables of criminal behavior and operation of criminal justice system.
Prerequisite: take SOC-110
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SOC-325 Society and Leisure
(3 cr.)
Cross-disciplinary Issues, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning, Global Perspective
Repeatable for Credit: No
Explanations of recreation and leisure structures and processes from multiple theories within sociology and economics; comparative case studies of recreation and leisure; ethical implications of how recreation and leisure are encouraged and pursued in a modern capitalist system, considering various philosophical perspectives of justice.
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SOC-330 Social Theory
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Learning and applying advanced sociological and anthropological theories to social issues. Understanding various tools of explanation in the social sciences, as well as their origins, assumptions, and specific ways-of-knowing. Building a theoretical toolkit with the ability to compare, evaluate and synthesize theories for particular applications.
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SOC-340 Sociology of Work
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Human behavior in various types of employment and occupations; trends in U.S. occupational structure.
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SOC-349 Cooperative Education Experience
(1-8 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
Department Consent
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SOC-350 Sociology of Hmong Culture
(1 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological overview of Hmong cultural values, history, immigration and resettlement experiences, family and clan functions, and spiritual beliefs and practices.
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SOC-355 Social Psychology
(3 cr.)
Cross-disciplinary Issues
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological theory and approaches to interaction, the social construction of meaning, and identities. Explore the intersections of social structure, culture, and the self. Application to contemporary social issues.
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SOC-360 Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Theories of delinquency, criminal behavior, and social control in relation to modern institutions in American culture.
Prerequisite: take SOC-110
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SOC-375 Sociology Of Minority Groups
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category A, Global Perspective, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Social/psychological aspects of interaction between majority and minority groups; trends among minorities in the United States.
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SOC-385 Globalization and Social Change
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective, Cross-disciplinary Issues, Social Responsibility and Ethical Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Explanations of globalization processes and global governance from multiple perspectives among the social sciences, including sociology and economics; historical origins of global processes and structures; global social change and resistance; ethical implications of globalization outcomes regarding perspectives and distributions of justice.
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SOC-399 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SOC-400 Sociology of Altruism
(3 cr.)
Social and Behavioral Sciences - Sociology
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sociological perspective of altruism explored in the context of volunteer public service, and biographies of exemplary public service participants.
Department Consent
Prerequisite: Acceptance into University Honors Program
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SOC-410 Sociology of Thailand’s Minority Groups: Study Abroad Program
(4 cr.)
Global Perspective
Repeatable for Credit: No
Study abroad program to Thailand. In-depth experiential learning of Thai minority cultures, including religions, socio-political status, Buddhism, health, education, trafficking of women and children, limited citizenship status, and poverty. Field trips to villages, nongovernmental agencies, schools, and clinics.
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SOC-449 Cooperative Education Experience
(1-8 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Work and study in an approved position to gain business/industrial/other experience. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
Department Consent
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SOC-499 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPAN-101 Elementary Spanish I
(4 cr.)
Global Perspective, Communication Skills - Foreign Language & Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Develop a solid foundation in the fundamental elements of Spanish: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Cultures of Spanish-speaking peoples throughout the world, including those in the United States. Grammatical gender, present and past tense verbs, pronouns, adjectives. Not available for credit to students who took SPAN-121 or SPAN-122 .
Prerequisite: Not available for credit to students who took SPAN-121 or SPAN-122
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SPAN-102 Elementary Spanish II
(4 cr.)
Global Perspective, Communication Skills - Foreign Language & Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Second level of understanding, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish. topics in the culture of Spanish-speaking people, including those in the United States. Compound verb tenses, the subjunctive and commands. Supplementary work with audiotapes and computers. Requires one year of H.S. Spanish or SPAN-101 or SPAN-122 .
Prerequisite: Spanish Placement Test or SPAN-101
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SPAN-121 Practical Spanish I
(2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Pronunciation, basic phrases for everyday situations, comprehension and production of short written and spoken sentences, basic grammar summary, introductory vocabulary, language in Hispanic and Hispanic-American cultural context. Not available for credit to students who took SPAN-101 .
Not for credit to students who took SPAN-101 .
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SPAN-122 Practical Spanish II
(2 cr.)
Communication Skills
Repeatable for Credit: No
Second quarter college Spanish. Vocabulary, conversational patterns, irregular present tense verbs, regular and some irregular preterit verbs; object pronouns. Spanish language in the context of Hispanic culture. Not available for credit to students who took SPAN-101 . One semester of H.S. Spanish or SPAN-121 is required.
Prerequisite: take SPAN-121 ; not available for credit to students who took SPAN-101 .
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SPAN-201 Intermediate Spanish I
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective, Communication Skills, Arts and Humanities - Foreign Language and Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Extensive development of vocabulary including common idioms, aural comprehension, correct pronunciation and recognition of verb tenses. Readings and class discussion based on historical background and contemporary Hispanic life, including Hispanic culture in the United States. Typically appropriate for students that have taken two years of H.S. Spanish or completed SPAN-102 .
Prerequisite: Spanish Placement Test or SPAN-102
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SPAN-202 Intermediate Spanish II
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective, Communication Skills
Repeatable for Credit: No
Complete grammar review of standard Spanish, applicable to both conversational situations and business or personal correspondence. Culture of Spanish-speaking peoples (short narratives, music, art) from around the globe. Knowledge of key historical and cultural characteristics of Spanish-speaking peoples via listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Typically appropriate for students that have taken two years of H.S. Spanish or completed SPAN-102 . The Department highly recommends taking SPAN 201 before SPAN-202.
Prerequisites: Spanish Placement Test or SPAN-102 .
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SPAN-204 Latin American Short Story
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective, Communication Skills, Arts and Humanities - Foreign Language and Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Introduction to the 20th and 21st century Latin American short story. Vocabulary and readings in Spanish of prominent authors and distinct literary periods of this genre. Related historical and cultural contexts within broader global settings. Taught in Spanish. Typically appropriate for students who have taken 4 years of H.S. Spanish or SPAN 102 . The Department highly recommends taking SPAN 201 and SPAN 202 before SPAN-204.
Prerequisite: Spanish Placement Test or SPAN 102
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SPAN-220 Business Spanish
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective
Develop students’ ability to communicate in Spanish used for professional purposes. Extensive grammar review paired with specialized business terminology needed to communicate in the workplace. Commercial culture in the Spanish-speaking world in order to facilitate occupational relations in Spanish.
Prerequisite: take SPAN 102 or equivalent
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SPAN-227 Spanish Composition and Conversation I
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective, Communication Skills
Repeatable for Credit: No
Advanced grammar review. Introduction to composition. Writing paragraphs and short essays. Advanced conversation. Emphasis on native-like pronunciation, vocabulary, structural fluency, and cultural awareness and sensitivity vis-a-vis Spanish-speaking peoples around the globe. Typically appropriate for students who have taken four years of H.S. Spanish or completed SPAN 202 . The Department highly recommends taking SPAN 202 before SPAN-227.
Prerequisite: Spanish Placement Exam or SPAN 102
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SPAN-229 Hispanic Literature in America
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category B, Global Perspective, Communication Skills, Arts and Humanities - Foreign Language and Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Themes and techniques of Hispanic literature. Vocabulary in Spanish for discussion of a variety of literary genres. Narratives grounded in historical, racial, and cultural contexts from throughout the Spanish-speaking locales in the United States. Emphasis on increasing oral and written fluency in Spanish. Typically appropriate for students who have taken 4 years of H.S. Spanish or SPAN 202 . The Department highly recommends taking SPAN 227 before SPAN-229.
Prerequisite: Spanish Placement Test or SPAN-202 .
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SPAN-296 Business Spanish in Oaxaca
(3 cr.)
Racial and Ethnic Studies Category A, Global Perspective, Arts and Humanities - Foreign Language and Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Study abroad course. Communicate in Spanish for professional purposes. Extensive grammar review, paired with specialized business terminology to communicate in the workplace. Cultivation of knowledge of commercial culture in the Spanish-speaking world, in order to facilitate occupational relations in Spanish.
Prerequisite: Take SPAN 201
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SPAN-296 Mestizaje: Myth and Reality of the Mexican Nation-State
(3 cr.)
Racial & Ethnic Studies Category A, Arts and Humanities - Foreign Language and Culture
Repeatable for Credit: No
Study abroad course. Interrogation of the foremost organizing myth of the Mexican nation-state: mestizaje or, miscegenation. Study of seminal texts from Mexican authors, while visiting archaeological and cultural sites within the state of Oaxaca. Race as a central category for structuring social and economic relations while honing students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills in Spanish.
Prerequisite: Take SPAN 201
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SPAN-296 Spanish for the Helping Professions
(3 cr.)
Global Perspective
Repeatable for Credit: No
Review of Spanish grammar suitable for an intermediate level of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Focus on oral precision in translation between Spanish and English during clinical encounters in the helping professions. Special emphasis on the cultural character of diverse Latino communities in the US and the health conditions which most affect them. Prerequisites: Spanish 102 or equivalent.
Prerequisite(s): take SPAN 102 or equivalent
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SPAN-299 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Global Perspective
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPAN-399 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Global Perspective
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPAN-499 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Global Perspective
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPED-100 Introduction to Special Education
(1 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Introduction to the special education profession. Survey of the history, philosophy, mission, legislation, issues, organization, and resources associated with the profession; and introduction to the professional standards and content guidelines.
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SPED-199 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPED-299 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPED-300 Introduction to Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Introduction to etiology of mental retardation; psychological, educational, social and vocational aspects; adjustment techniques used in working with mentally retarded persons.
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SPED-301 Learning Disabilities
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Identification, remediation and evaluation of learning disabled; intervention techniques used with adolescents and adults.
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SPED-305 Introduction to Early Childhood Special Education
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
History and purpose of Early Childhood Special Education. Programming; legislation; population receiving services; adaptations; strategies; family intervention; intervention models; inclusion of all students in the natural environment or least restrictive environment.
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SPED-310 ECSE Methods, Materials and Curriculum
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Curricular and methodological adaptation; embedding goals and objectives for young children with exceptional needs in the areas of social-emotional development, motor skills, self-help skills, communication, cognitive development.
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SPED-315 Early Childhood Special Education Organization and Implementation
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Organization and implementation of Early Childhood Special Education programs. Service delivery; itinerant services; consultation and collaboration; and intervention models.
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SPED-320 Early Childhood Special Education Assessment
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Supervised practice in assessment of young children with suspected or identified developmental delays. Standardized and informal assessment instruments for screening; determining eligibility for special needs programming; and progress monitoring of early learning in early childhood children.
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SPED-322 Curriculum & Instruction: Severe Disabilities
(2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Curriculum and instruction strategies for teaching functional academics, personal/social, vocational, and community living skills to individual with severe and profound disabilities.
Prerequisites: take SPED-300 and SPED-430
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SPED-323 Mild Disabilities: Social Studies and Science
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Curriculum and methods of teaching students with mild cognitive, learning, and emotional/behavioral disabilities in the content areas of social studies, science, and in general education. Strategies that facilitate integration, improve maintenance and generalization of skills, promote transitions, increase self-awareness and self-management, and compensate for learning deficits.
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SPED-324 Curriculum & Instruction: Career & Transition Education
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Curriculum and instruction for persons with disabilities in prevocational, career education, career preparation, and transition, stressing collaboration between education, community-based service providers, and families.
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SPED-326 Pre-Student Teaching: Cognitive Disabilities
(2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Supervised experience in observing, planning instruction, and teaching children and youth with cognitive disabilities in a cross-categorical school environment. Repeatable three times for credit.
Department Consent
Prerequisites: Benchmark 1 completion
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SPED-328 Assessment for Individual Education/ Transition Plans
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Diagnosing behavior and learning problems of students with exceptional education needs. Preparing individual educational and transitional plans based on comprehensive assessments.
Prerequisite: Benchmark I Completed
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SPED-330 Introduction to Communication Disorders
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Nature, causes of and methods used when working with individuals who have speech and language disorders.
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SPED-336 Early Childhood Special Education Pre-Student Teaching
(2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Supervised experience in teaching children with exceptionalities. Instructional practices based on knowledge of the child, family, community, and the curriculum.
Prerequisite: take SPED-305
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SPED-338 Pre-Student Teaching Children/Youth with Disabilities
(2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Supervised experience in observing, planning instruction, and teaching children and youth with disabilities in a cross-categorical school environment.
Prerequisite: Benchmark I Completed
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SPED-399 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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SPED-420 Schools, Families and Community Collaboration
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Provide students with theory, general principles, and procedures for fostering collaborative partnerships among families, professionals, students, and other service providers. Focus will be on families with children who have disabilities
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SPED-430 Inclusion of Students with Exceptional Needs
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Inclusion of students with exceptional educational needs in the regular classroom setting. Laws, definition, characteristics, adaptations, strategies and transitional services that pertain to persons identified with: cognitive disability, learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional disability, autism, traumatic brain injury, speech and language disorders, visual and hearing loss, physical and other health impairments, and gifted and talented.
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SPED-440 Diagnosis and Remediation of Literacy and Math Disabilities
(4 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Curriculum, methods, assessment and remediation of teaching reading, math, and language to individuals with mild disabilities. Strategies that assess and evaluate, monitor progress, increase, maintain and generalize skills, facilitate integration, and compensate for learning deficits in the general and special education curricula.
Prerequisites: Benchmark I completion
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SPED-447 Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Children and Adolescents
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Assessment, identification and evaluation of emotional and behavioral disorders of learners middle childhood through adolescence, including methods of observing, diagnosing, documenting and interpreting. Characteristics of emotional and behavioral disabled learners, including potential concomitant physical, cognitive, or sensory disabilities and psychological, social and environmental factors contributing to childhood emotional and behavioral disorders.
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SPED-449 Cooperative Education Experience
(1-8 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Work and study in an approved position to gain experience in business, industry, or other. Normally entails recurring, supervised work periods, each one building and expanding on the previous.
Department Consent
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SPED-462 Classroom Management Techniques
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Techniques for motivating handicapped youth, individual and group discipline, behavior modification, educational organization, evaluation, and communication to enhance learning.
Benchmark I Completed
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SPED-471 Introduction to Special Education and Professional Portfolio Development
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Survey of the history of the field, the philosophy of special education, the mission of the field, special education legislation and mandates, issues within the profession, influential organizations, and the basic principles of professional portfolio development.
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SPED-472 Foundations of Autism Spectrum Disorder
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
A foundation for understanding individuals with Autism spectrum Disorders (ASD) and its effect on the individuals’ life and learning, through a comprehensive overview of the history, current literature, and best practices.
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SPED-473 Behavioral Interventions and Positive Behavior Supports
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Study functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and behavioral intervention planning (BIP) for individualized behavior problems for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related disabilities in the PK-12 educational setting. Focus on assessment skills to produce data-driven environmental modifications, pro-social replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, and home-school collaboration.
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SPED-474 Augmentative Communication and Social Skills
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Review current literature in supporting communication and social skills for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder; including best practices in assessment and implementation of augmentative and alternative communication interventions.
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SPED-475 Assessment and Methodology of Autism Spectrum Disorder
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Critical review of assessment methods used in the identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Formal and informal assessment results are utilized to create an intervention plan that is responsive to the student’s individual needs.
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SPED-476 Practicum in Autism Spectrum Disorder
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Review of instructional techniques, adaptations, and modifications to develop individualized instruction for students with autism spectrum disorder. Aligning instruction to student learning and behavioral styles and assessment in the general education and special education settings.
Department Consent
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SPED-481 Student Teaching: Special Education
(4-16 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Directed special education teaching and community experience in selected off-campus schools.
Department Consent
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SPED-482 Student Teaching Early Childhood-Special Education
(4-8 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Directed teaching and community experiences in selected infant-toddler, preschool, or primary school based programs for young children with disabilities, supervised by a certified special education educator.
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SPED-488 Intern Teaching: Special Education
(16 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
An alternative method of obtaining Special Education student teaching experience. Interns receive license to teach and salaried appointment in a cooperating school for one semester.
Department Consent
Prerequisite: take SPED-323
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SPED-489 Intern Teaching Early Childhood: Special Education
(8-16 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Directed teaching and community experiences in selected infant, toddler, preschool, or primary school-based programs for children with disabilities.
Prerequisite: take SPED-320
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SPED-490 Behavioral Interventions and Methods
(2 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Study and practice in Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Behavioral Intervention Planning (BIP) for students with social-emotional-behavioral issues and/or autism. Targeted behavior intervention planning addressed within a larger Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) service-delivery model. Focus on assessment skills to produce data-driven environmental modifications, pro-social replacement behaviors, consequence strategies, and home-school interventions.
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SPED-496 Foundations for Special Education Teachers
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Foundations of special education, instruction and educational needs of students in each disability category. Includes legal and historical aspects, professionalism and ethics, philosophies, eligibility and educational programming.
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SPED-496 Literacy and Foundations of Reading for Special Educators
(4 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Overview of scientifically- based literacy instruction, with an emphasis on the foundations of reading in the primary grades.
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SPED-496A Classroom Design and Behavior Management
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Skills and knowledge in classroom design and behavioral management in special education. Focus on prevention, intervention and problem solving for whole group instruction, as well as behavior needs of individual students.
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SPED-499 Independent Study
(1-3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: Yes
Department Consent
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STAT-130 Elementary Statistics
(3 cr.)
Analytic Reasoning and Natural Sciences - Analytic Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Concepts and application of probability and statistics: descriptive measures (both graphical and numerical), introductory probability, probability distributions, sampling distribution of statistics from large and small samples, estimation and hypothesis testing, correlation and regression. Concepts llustrated with statistical computing packages.
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STAT-320 Statistical Methods
(3 cr.)
Analytic Reasoning and Natural Sciences - Analytic Reasoning
Repeatable for Credit: No
Methods of describing data: graphical methods, numerical summary measures, exploratory data analysis. Probability, probability distributions, expected value. Sampling distributions. Statistical inference: estimation and hypothesis testing for one-sample and two-sample problems. Regression analysis. Demonstrating with standard statistical software packages. Students may incur incidental expenses for software.
Prerequisite: Math Placement or MATH-120
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STAT-330 Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Exploratory data analysis; basic probability, probability distributions, mathematical expectation, sampling distributions; basic statistical inference (estimation and hypothesis testing); topics in reliability.
Prerequisite: take MATH-154 or MATH-157
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STAT-331 Probability and Mathematical Statistics I
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Sample spaces. Probability functions for discrete and continuous sample spaces. Conditional probability and independence. Random variables; probability density and cumulative distribution functions; joint, marginal, and conditional distributions. Expected values, moments, and moment-generating functions. Binomial, hypergeometric, Poisson, normal, and gamma distributions.
Prerequisites: take MATH-154 or MATH-157 . Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment in MATH-158
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STAT-332 Probability and Mathematical Statistics II
(3 cr.)
Repeatable for Credit: No
Point estimation. Properties of point estimators: unbiasedness, efficiency, consistency, sufficiency. The method of maximum likelihood. Basic concepts of interval estimation and hypothesis testing. Inference in one-sample and two-sample problems. Simple linear regression analysis; the method of least squares. Goodness-off-it tests. Analysis of categorical data.
Prerequisite: take STAT-331
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